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BootSector Write - Virus: (Y/N) ?
Name: mick Date: August 7, 2002 at 20:21:44 Pacific
Comment:
Hello i just formated my other computer and when i try to reinstall win98 (i tried 95 too) i have this msg
BootSector Write Virus: (Y/N) ?
and if i type Y or N that does nothing.. a friend explain me how to solve this problem with fdisk but that dosent work more.. when i finish creat a partition the Virus msg appear.. HELP ME ! i dont want to be on my p1 133mhz on a 33.6k another 5minutes ;)
Name: smeagol Date: August 7, 2002 at 20:37:22 Pacific
Reply:
thats your bios anti virus thing telling you that somthing is writing to the boot sector.
2 options
1 disable the check in your bios
or
less diserable
hit N and hope it doesn't keep asking you as reinstalling an OS sets anti vrius things off somthing cronic. (Thats why they all say disable all anti virus things :)
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Response Number 2
Name: DBPowerWCRulez Date: August 7, 2002 at 22:42:29 Pacific
Reply:
RE:
BootSector Write Virus: (Y/N) ?
"Virus: (Y/N) ?" looks like attemping to planting a virus on the boot sectors.
Y: will destruction on the hard drive. N: will planting them.
Go get emergency disk with AV and updated def database then run FULL scans..
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